outerly

outerly adverb: toward or on the outside; outwardly.

Adverb

outerly (comparative more outerly, superlative most outerly)

(rare) Toward or on the outside; outwardly.
- In the lower Jaw, two Tusks, one on each side, like those of a Boar, standing outerly, an inch behind the Cuters1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […]...
- If in an harmonic range one point halve innerly the tract between two conjugates, the other (its conjugate) must halve the same tract outerly, i.e., must be at ∞.1888, W. B. Smith, Elementary Co-ordinate Geometry, page 53

outerly

Outer; not internal.
- In a sand papering machine, the combinations with the holder and the bed supporting the material to be sand papered, of a holder for the sand paper, composed of a box or frame carrying inner and outerly plates and means for moving the plates against an interposed block of flexible substance, and...1895 July 2, Henry E. Pauk, Jr., “541878: Sandpapering Machine”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, volume 72, page 22
- This is because the copulative verb in Wordsworth is real verb^([sic]), from his own mind and feelings, and not merely the arranger of action of outerly characters or objects.1984, John Powell Ward, Wordsworth's Language of Men, page 192
Moving toward the outside.
- Ships that are bound to the northward may, with N.W. winds, anchor to the southward of Calk Skerry in 8 or 9 fathoms; but must be careful to avoid being caught there with outerly winds.1818, John William Norie, New and extensive sailing directions for the navigation of The North Sea, page 77
- In pursuance of your directions to report to you my observations on the effect of the Admiralty Pier in affording shelter in Dover Bay during the gale of this day, I beg leave to inform you, that on arriving from Calais, at 5.15 a.m., with the "Princess Alice," it blew a strong gale at S.W., and a...1851, Great Britain House of Commons, Accounts and papers - Volume 22

(c) means securing the resulting innerly disposed hollow member within the resulting outerly disposed hollow member in the above-indicated positional relationship thereto;1964, Harry W. Carpenter, “3146608: Cooling Device”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 83:
The class of minimal clauses is outerly sentineled by the negative example.2012, Bruno Apolloni, Franz Kurfess, From Synapses to Rules, page 51:
But it is outerly imposed Confusion that one has to be aware of at all times and try to eradicate.2019, Vasile Munteanu, The Karma of Self, page 64:
It comes to existence as "the rose" because we outerly label it that way, not the other way around.2020, Vida Demarin, Mind and Brain: Bridging Neurology and Psychiatry, page 34:

comparative	more outerly
superlative	most outerly

From outer + -ly.

What does outerly mean?: Outerly means toward or on the outside; outwardly.
How do you use outerly in a sentence?: (c) means securing the resulting innerly disposed hollow member within the resulting outerly disposed hollow member in the above-indicated positional relationship thereto;
What part of speech is outerly?: Outerly can be an adverb or an adjective.

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